Q55815

Game details · IGDB

Elite is a space trading video game, written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell and originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in September 1984. Elite's open-ended game model, and revolutionary 3D graphics led to it being ported to virtually every contemporary home computer system, and earned it a place as a classic and a genre maker in gaming history. The game's title derives from one of the player's goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of "Elite". Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wire-frame 3D grap…

Released

1984

Genres

Shooter, Simulator, Strategy

Platforms

Acorn Archimedes, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST/STE, Acorn Electron, DOS, Tatung Einstein, Amiga, Apple II, Amstrad CPC, Nintendo Entertainment System

Game modes

Single player

Developer

Acornsoft, Frontier Developments, David Braben, Ian Bell

Publisher

Hybrid Technology, Firebird, Merlin Software U.K., Imagineer, Acornsoft

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